I Carried You Urns
The I Carried You collection is for the families who can name the hardest stretch, whether it was a long illness or a year no one expected to get through. These aluminum urns feature the single line from the Footprints poem, answering the walker's question about the lone set of prints. The collection includes full-size and sharing sizes, offered in painted finishes or hand-applied enamel with silver bands.
We can engrave a name and dates directly into the surface in a two-tone style. These urns are for the one who carried the family through its hardest stretch.
This line is drawn from a larger poem, but it is meant to stand alone. It does not attempt to summarize an entire lifetime, but rather focuses on one specific, difficult stretch. It serves as an answer to a question asked by someone who felt they were walking through their hardest moments alone. As the poem says, the single set of prints left behind is the proof that they were being carried.
Families often hear these words in two different ways. For some, it provides comfort for the person who has passed, acknowledging a final, difficult stretch where they were held. For others, it is a statement of what the person did, the one who stayed steady when the path became steep. It belongs to the person who carried the household through a difficult year or the months of a long illness, providing support without ever asking for credit.
Each aluminum urn is finished with care, available in a range of painted colors or a hand-applied enamel that features hand-detailed silver bands. Each piece includes a felt base and a threaded screw-top lid.
Because the memory of that support is so personal, we offer the option to have a name and dates engraved directly into the surface. The engraving is two-tone, set beside the line from the poem. It allows you to name the person who was your strength during those seasons.
We provide these I Carried You cremation urns in two sizes to suit how you wish to keep them close. You may choose a full-size urn to hold the complete remains of an adult, or a sharing urn designed to hold a portion of the remains so that more than one person can keep a piece of them. Whether you keep the whole or a part, the urn remains a reminder of the one who carried you through the hardest stretch.
If the person you are remembering was someone whose steadiness anchored your family, or who carried the family through the hospital months or the year the money ran out and never brought it up afterward, then this design will read as theirs. Anyone who was ever carried through a season like that will recognize the words.
You may find yourself picturing that hardest stretch of the road and the person who walked it by your side, holding you up.
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Holds all of an adult's remains, the same full-size memorial a funeral home provides. Choosing one urn for one person? This is the one.
Holds a meaningful portion of the remains, measured in cups, not all of them. Choose this when dividing ashes between households, or keeping some close after scattering the rest.
Holds a small token: a few spoonfuls. A personal remembrance: one for each family member, or something small to keep on a shelf or bedside table.
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Every design comes in the same three sizes. Here's how families use each one.
Individual
Full size · Approx. 10" highHolds all of an adult's remains, the same full-size memorial a funeral home provides. Choosing one urn for one person? This is the one.
Sharing
Mid size · Approx. 6" highHolds a meaningful portion of the remains, measured in cups, not all of them. Choose this when dividing ashes between households, or keeping some close after scattering the rest.
Keepsake
Pocket size · Approx. 3" highHolds a small token: a few spoonfuls. A personal remembrance: one for each family member, or something small to keep on a shelf or bedside table.